Crossed two fine rivulets.

The oozes still full and flowing.
_1st September, 1867._--We had to march in the afternoon on account of a dry patch existing in the direct way.

We slept without water, though by diverging a few miles to the north we should have crossed many streams, but this is the best path for the whole year.
Baraka went back to Tipo Tipo's village, thus putting his intention of begging among the Arab slaves into operation.

He has only one complaint, and that is dislike to work.

He tried perseveringly to get others to run away with him; lost the medicine-box, six table-cloths, and all our tools by giving his load off to a country lad while he went to collect mushrooms: he will probably return to Zanzibar, and be a slave to the Arab slaves after being a perpetual nuisance to us for upwards of a year.
_2nd September, 1867._--When we reached the ford of the Lofu, we found that we were at least a thousand feet below Chitimba's.